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A78478 Certaine observations touching the two great offices of the seneschalsey or high-stewardship, and high-constableship of England. 1642 (1642) Wing C1713; Thomason E122_23; ESTC R5060 13,081 16

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CERTAINE OBSERVATIONS TOVCHING The two great Offices of the Seneschalsey or High-Stewardship and High-Constableship of ENGLAND LONDON Printed for L. Chapman Octob. 17. 1642. CERTAINE OBSERVATIONS TOUCHING The two great Offices of the Seneschalsey or High-Stewardship and High-Constableship of ENGLAND THe Seneschalsey or High-Stewardship of England is known to be the greatest Office in England by reason of the authority it hath over all other Officers which since the Norman Conquest hath long continued by descent inheritably in the Family of the ancient Earles of Leicester was after translated to the house of Lancaster and by K. Henry the fourth of that stock when he had obtained the Crown was incorporate into the same as all other the honours Lands and hereditaments of that house were For the plainer manifestation thereof it will serve wel to the purpose before the Office it selfe be described to shew the first institution thereof and to recount in order the succession of the Officers whilst it passed inheritably It is therefore to be understood that amongst the persons of chiefest account which entred this Kingdome with D. William of Normandy and were assistant unto him in the conquest thereof one Hugh Grauntmesuell a Baron of Normandy was of special reckoning whose father Robert of Grauntmesuell one of the chiefest Noblemen of all Normandy reteined at home with him for his own comfort and for the preservation of this stock the elder of them named Robert who succeeded him in all the inheritance of Normandy but sent with the Duke his second son called Sir Hugh of Grauntmesuell who so demeaned himselfe in the enterprise that when by conquest and strong hand the whole Kingdome was subdued by the Normans their Duke regarding the good service of those that adventured and laboured with him forgot not the praiseworthy desetts of this Nobleman whom therefore he rewarded liberally with sundry great Territories and portions of Land in many shires of the Realm as namely with those great Lordships Peberworth Merestone Quenington Weston and Wileot in Glocestershire with divers Lands in Ferendow Meristow Thorp Welington Staverton Mereford Newbottle Middleton Sutton Biveld Wodeford Edgdow and Ceroilton in Northamptonshire with Wichingston and Hinkley in Leicestershire with divers Lands in Edwolton and Sandy-acre in Nottinghamshire and with Ley in Suffolke as appeareth by the record in the Exchequor commonly called Domesday Moreover he made him high Seneschal or Steward of the whole Kingdom according to the Norman usage a dignity never heard of in this Land before did further advance him in marriage with a great Lady inheretrix of sundry possessions named Adalisa or Alice on whom he gat two daughters his heires the elder of them called Petronelle or Pernell was married unto Robert Earle of Leicester surnamed auecles blanches maines that is Robert with the white hands that was the son of Robert le Rossa Earle of Leicester who was son unto Robert of Beanemount Lord of Pont Adomare and Earle of Mellent in Normandy brother to Sir Henry of Newburgh the first Earle of Warwicke after the Conquest unto whom the said Pernell brought the one moyity of her fathers possessions and withall for increase because she was the eldest daughter together with the honours of Hinckley the Office of Seneschalsie or Highstewardship of England which were not partable as the other inheritances were The yonger of the said Sir Hugh Grauntmessuels daughters called after her mother Adalisa was given in marriage unto one Roger Bygot a Norman with the other moyity of her fathers possessions unto whom she bare divers sons and daughters from the eldest whereof named Hugh Bygot that was the first Earle of the East-Angles of this family containing Norfolk and Suffolk the other Bygots that were after Earls of Norfolk are lineally discended between which two families contention had often been about the Office of Stewardship whereof in this place to note what is set down in the record of the Exchequer called the red booke is not impertinent to this purpose where it is said that on the Sunday before Candlemas-day in the 20 yeere of the raigne of K. Henry the son of K. Iohn commonly called K. Henry the third at the Coronation of his wife Q. Elenor that was the Earle of Provinces daughter Simon of Mountford then Earle of Leicester and high Steward of England lineally descended of the before-named Parnell being ready the day of the Coronation to execute his Office of Highsteward which by right appertained unto him was forbidden and gainsaid by Roger Bygot then Earle of Norfolk who being descended from the before named Adalisa the yonger of Sir Hugh Grantmesuels daughters alleaged that it was his right to exercise that Office which controversie as also divers others then moved was heard judicially before the King unto whom Earl Simon replying answered that it was true that contention had been heretofore moved between their Ancestors for the same matters in the daies of King Iohn the Kings father which was compounded and pacified for the service of ten Knights or rather ten Knights fees given by the Earle of Leicester unto the Earle of Norfolk who therefore released all his title and right to the Highstewardship Whereunto because Earle Roger of Norfolk alleaged that there rested of these Knights feet two and a halfe to be assigned unto him Earle Simon made answer that he might well recover them with the Arrerages by the Laws of the Land in the Kings Court and ought not therefore to hinder him in the execution of his Office seeing he acknowledged the former accord and by vertue of the same was already in quiet possession of seven Knights fees and a half And so was Earle Simon by the Kings own doom and sentence admitted to the quiet exercise of the Seneschalsie at the same Coronation And now to return where we left Robert Earle of Leicester that wedded Dame Parnell was high Seneschall or Steward of England and was the man for whose greatnesse of stomacke the walls of the Town of Leicester were rased to the ground because he took part with the yong King Henry against his father K. Henry the second as histories make mention begat on her sons and daughters and after in K. Richards daies the first warring in the holy Land was slain at the siege of Acon in the yeere of our Lord God 1190 whose eldest sonne Robert su●mmed after his mother Fitz-Parnell was after his death Earle of Leicester and high Steward of England of whom many worthy acts are by histories remembred both of his prowesse in the field and fidelity to K. Richard the first with whom he continued as a most faithfull companion during the Palestine wars was partaker of his evill fortune by being taken there prisoner compelled to pay for his redemption 1000 Marks of Silver and therefore constrained to sell his Castell of Plasey in Normandy But to be briefe and not to stay upon the Narration of these things It serveth onely to the purpose to note that